OH
AFRICA! WHEN WILL OUR LIGHT SHINE? THE THOUGHT OF AN AFRICAN YOUTH.
When will our light shine mother Africa?
Will our light ever shine as Africans?
Do we even have a plan to light our flames as a people?
Is the Blackman capable of managing his own affairs as claimed by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah?
Oh mother Africa,
Could there be a single week of incident-free in our beloved continent?
Will our light ever shine as Africans?
Do we even have a plan to light our flames as a people?
Is the Blackman capable of managing his own affairs as claimed by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah?
Oh mother Africa,
Could there be a single week of incident-free in our beloved continent?
Why is our land blessed with natural resources
yet poverty remains dominant?
Why do we have some of the best brains in the world yet our challenges keep on compounding?
Why do we produce most of the world's agricultural
produce yet we are not even the determiners of their prices?
Why do we boast of how accommodating we are yet we
keep on fighting each other?
Why do we have the same blood running through our
veins yet we met out inhumane treatment on one another?
Religion (Christianity and Islam) seems dominant yet
our land is filled with greed, wickedness and torture?
Africans, this is the time to ponder over our lives,
look at where we have come from, envisage our future and take the bold decision
to take our destiny in our hands.
Africa, arise, we can make our continent great
because we have all it takes to deliver.
Africans, the time is now or never.
Enough of the blame game.
Let us stop blaming colonialism for our challenges.
Let us stop blaming colonialism for our challenges.
The many problems confronting our continent is
similar if not the same, this is the time for us to join forces, share ideas,
brainstorm, break all odds , develop a positive attitude and fight for our
vision.
Together we can, let us all as individuals,
organizations, communities, countries light our candles to brighten our little
corners and we will all see how bright and beautiful our continent will be.
Kwame Ohene-Ntow.
YALI dream.
A better Ghana.
A brighter Africa.
YALI dream.
A better Ghana.
A brighter Africa.
The writer is a graduate student of Development Policy
and Planning at KNUST and an alumnus
of the Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI).
EMAIL:vincentntow12@gmail.com
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